In every bloggers life comes a special day - the day they first launch a new blog. Now unless you went out and purchased someone else’’s blog chances are your blog launched with only one very loyal reader - you. Maybe a few days later you received a few hits when you told your sister, father, girlfriend and best friend about your new blog but that’’s about as far you went when it comes to finding readers. Here are the top 10 techniques new bloggers can use to find readers.

These are tips specifically for new bloggers, those people who have next-to-no audience at the moment and want to get the ball rolling.

It helps if you work on this list from top to bottom as each technique builds on the previous step to help you create momentum. Eventually once you establish enough momentum you gain what is called “traction”, which is a large enough audience base (about 500 readers a day is good) that you no longer have to work too hard on finding new readers. Instead your current loyal readers do the work for you through word of mouth.Top 10 Tips

10. Write at least five major “pillar” articles. A pillar article is usually a tutorial style article aimed to teach your audience something. Generally they are longer than 500 words and have lots of very practical tips or advice. This article you are currently reading could be considered a pillar article since it is very practical and a good “how-to” lesson. This style of article has long term appeal, stays current (it isn”t news or time dependent) and offers real value and insight. The more pillars you have on your blog the better.

9. Write one new blog post per day minimum. Not every post has to be a pillar, but you should work on getting those five pillars done at the same time as you keep your blog fresh with a daily news or short article style post. The important thing here is to demonstrate to first time visitors that your blog is updated all the time so they feel that if they come back tomorrow they will likely find something new. This causes them to bookmark your site or subscribe to your blog feed.

You don”t have to produce one post per day all the time but it is important you do when your blog is brand new. Once you get traction you still need to keep the fresh content coming but your loyal audience will be more forgiving if you slow down to a few per week instead. The first few months are critical so the more content you can produce at this time the better.

8. Use a proper domain name. If you are serious about blogging be serious about what you call your blog. In order for people to easily spread the word about your blog you need an easily rememberable domain name. People often talk about blogs they like when they are speaking to friends in the real world (that’’s the offline world, you remember that place right?) so you need to make it easy for them to spread the word and pass on your URL. Try and get a .com if you can and focus on small easy to remember domains rather than worry about having the correct keywords (of course if you can get great keywords and easy to remember then you”ve done a good job!).

7. Start commenting on other blogs. Once you have your pillar articles and your daily fresh smaller articles your blog is ready to be exposed to the world. One of the best ways to find the right type of reader for your blog is to comment on other people’’s blogs. You should aim to comment on blogs focused on a similar niche topic to yours since the readers there will be more likely to be interested in your blog.

Most blog commenting systems allow you to have your name/title linked to your blog when you leave a comment. This is how people find your blog. If you are a prolific commentor and always have something valuable to say then people will be interested to read more of your work and hence click through to visit your blog.

6. Trackback and link to other blogs in your blog posts. A trackback is sort of like a blog conversation. When you write a new article to your blog and it links or references another blogger’’s article you can do a trackback to their entry. What this does is leave a truncated summary of your blog post on their blog entry - it’’s sort of like your blog telling someone else’’s blog that you wrote an article mentioning them. Trackbacks often appear like comments.

This is a good technique because like leaving comments a trackback leaves a link from another blog back to yours for readers to follow, but it also does something very important - it gets the attention of another blogger. The other blogger will come and read your post eager to see what you wrote about them. They may then become a loyal reader of yours or at least monitor you and if you are lucky some time down the road they may do a post linking to your blog bringing in more new readers.

5. Encourage comments on your own blog. One of the most powerful ways to convince someone to become a loyal reader is to show there are other loyal readers already following your work. If they see people commenting on your blog then they infer that your content must be good since you have readers so they should stick around and see what all the fuss is about. To encourage comments you can simply pose a question in a blog post. Be sure to always respond to comments as well so you can keep the conversation going.

4. Submit your latest pillar article to a blog carnival. A blog carnival is a post in a blog that summarizes a collection of articles from many different blogs on a specific topic. The idea is to collect some of the best content on a topic in a given week. Often many other blogs link back to a carnival host and as such the people that have articles featured in the carnival enjoy a spike in new readers.

To find the right blog carnival for your blog, do a search at http://blogcarnival.com/.

3. Submit your blog to blogtopsites.com. To be honest this tip is not going to bring in a flood of new readers but it’’s so easy to do and only takes five minutes so it’’s worth the effort. Go to Blog Top Sites, find the appropriate category for your blog and submit it. You have to copy and paste a couple of lines of code on to your blog so you can rank and then sit back and watch the traffic come in. You will probably only get 1-10 incoming readers per day with this technique but over time it can build up as you climb the rankings. It all helps!

2. Submit your articles to EzineArticles.com. This is another tip that doesn”t bring in hundreds of new visitors immediately (although it can if you keep doing it) but it’’s worthwhile because you simply leverage what you already have - your pillar articles. Once a week or so take one of your pillar articles and submit it to Ezine Articles. Your article then becomes available to other people who can republish your article on their website or in their newsletter.

How you benefit is through what is called your “Resource Box”. You create your own resource box which is like a signature file where you include one to two sentences and link back to your website (or blog in this case). Anyone who publishes your article has to include your resource box so you get incoming links. If someone with a large newsletter publishes your article you can get a lot of new readers at once.

1. Write more pillar articles. Everything you do above will help you to find blog readers however all of the techniques I”ve listed only work when you have strong pillars in place. Without them if you do everything above you may bring in readers but they won”t stay or bother to come back. Aim for one solid pillar article per week and by the end of the year you will have a database of over 50 fantastic feature articles that will work hard for you to bring in more and more readers.

This article was by Yaro Starak, a professional blogger and my blog mentor. He is the leader of the Blog Mastermind mentoring program designed to teach bloggers how to earn a full time income blogging part time.

To get more information about Blog Mastermind click here.

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The point here is you HAVE to elevate Traffic to King status. Stop for a moment and make inventory of your traffic tactics. What do you really do to bring more traffic to your blog or site? Are you choosing right products to promote to your audience? Did you make your service offer irresistible? Have you recently refreshed your copywriting skills? Do you use long-tail keywords in your posts?

Many times using various traffic strategies is enough to take your blog to the next level. However, you have to evaluate results whenever you employed traffic generating strategy. Learn what worked well and capitalize on it.

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Meet Jacobo Benitez, a guy from Mexico. He is just 21 years old, but he has managed to build a business that makes him 5-figures every month. And he has done this with the help of Google AdWords. Now, he is going to reveal his own Google AdWords campaigns, including keywords, landing pages, and products that enable him to earn a full-time income on the Internet.

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Here is what covered in 31 free videos:

Installation and Upgrades

* Best Practices for Upgrading WordPress
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* Importing and Exporting Data

Configuring WordPress
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* Privacy Settings
* Reading Settings
* Writing Settings
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Customizing WordPress

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Blogging with WordPress

* Creating Content: Posts vs. Pages
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Product Features. Web 2.0 Wealth is complete in-a-box system you can use to start making money blogging. It comes with pre-packaged Wordpress 2.5 blog, hours of training videos on how to setup product, make changes to a blog, monetize your blog, select a niche, register and setup domain among many others.

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I promised to publish this report until Taggos Alerts will reach PR2. Last month it DID and this report is the last one. In summary, it took about 3 months to get from PR0 to PR2 with a small effort on my side. I did not post as frequently as I wanted, and somebody more aggressive (more posts and back linking) would have achieved such result in a shorter period of time.

To your online success,
Max

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PLR articles stands for private label rights articles and are a very inexpensive way to get content

Why PLR articles and what is so important about them? Content is a king on the internet and not just any content, but unique and original. As online entrepreneur, you constantly have to produce updated content for your online properties (blog, website, ezine) to stay on a top of search engines game. When you buy PLR articles, you are buying content cheaply, can modify articles as you wish and do not spend valuable time on article research and writing.

You might ask why not to use free reprint articles and pay for PLR articles? To start with, you can not change a content of free reprint articles and required to publish a link back to someone else website. That way you are building links for your competitor, since most likely free article you want to publish will be related to your business or niche.

Buy PLR articles or write yourself? Unless you are a writer or just enjoy writing articles, you’ll find writing articles lengthy and time-consuming process. Think about a time you have to spend to put together a small set of 100 articles. If writing articles is not for you, another option is to hire a ghostwriter at Elance. However, be ready to spend $5-$8 per article and sometime even more. Cost of producing unique content will add up quickly.

PLR articles give you the best shot to add content to your website or blog. You can buy them in bulk at significantly lower price than hiring a ghostwriter, with average price ranging at 15-25 cents per article. Another huge benefit of PLR articles to me is that a research on the topic of the PLR articles has already been done for you. You don’t need to spend valuable time (hours or even days) to research a niche and write an article.

Frequently, search engines duplicate content cited as a disadvantage of using PLR articles. It sounds to me as a gray area, since duplicate content can be found all over internet, especially with proliferation of RSS feeds. These days thousands of websites subscribe to Yahoo News feed or Google blogs feed, and do you think all these sites get punished for trying to provide up-to-date information to visitors? What’s a point then to provide access to RSS feeds? How about a web master (or blog owner) who found a good article (in article directory) related to interests of her visitors? Does it mean she just stop cold there and don’t even think about re-publishing article? I’ll leave it up to you to think about it.

I am a lazy person and frequently publish PLR articles as is or with minimal changes, after all there are only so many hours in a day. However, if you want to get maximum benefit from PLR articles, I suggest rewriting them slightly or to use them as a basis for expanded article to avoid having same content on your website as on someone else site. Here are few ideas – write introduction and conclusion, add few sentences here and there, rearrange paragraphs and fine-tune article with keywords related to your website. Do not be discouraged by a fact that you need to rewrite an article, it is much easier to rework already produced article than to write a new one from scratch.

Private label articles normally come as a word or plain text file that you can edit and copy pieces from to create unique article. PLR article packages are good and inexpensive way to test and see whether PLR articles will fit into your online business model. I am certain you will be pleased with the results, once you start using them.

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Up until last year, you would pay a full price for products, unless publishers offer a limited time discount or sell bundled product packages. Not anymore, DealDotCom was launched last year and is the place where you can find internet marketing products at deeply discounted prices. They sell products and services that help save you time and money while running your online business. It is free to sign up and there is no obligation to buy anything at all.

However, there is a catch here. Product deals change every day, and publishers usually release only limited copies of products for DealDotCom. You have to act fast to get a good deal, you snooze you lose. I wish DealDotCom was around when I bought a bunch of internet marketing products, would of safe quite a bit of money.

Now, after you jump in (and there is no reason not to) and sign up with DealDotCom, next question is What products do I need? This really depends on your business and skills… are you building blog or old-fashioned website? Can you write a good sale copy for your product? What is your plan for fresh content for the site? Do you know how to drive traffic to the blog?

Here is a short list of topics I suggest to start with:

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And whenever a good deal shows up on DealDotCom, don’t hesitate to invest… at discount.

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1. Blog PR is still PR0.
2. 500+ unique visits over a month period with 1,500+ post reads. I sincerely hope I am helping a lot of you out there who want to succeed in online business.
3. Google search for “taggos alerts” brought 500+ search results - over 60 times increase in comparison with December. Talking about a power of internet!
4. Google shows 10 high PR backlinks to the blog. In reality, I see 100+ links in Awstats.
5. Blog was found by 35 keywords (zero in December).

That’s all for now, until next month… if you want to see a previous month stats, click here.

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